G4924: Reclining Female Nude

Identification and Creation

Object Number

G4924

People

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch (Leiden 1606 - 1669 Amsterdam)

Title

Reclining Female Nude

Other Titles

Alternate Title: 'Negress Lying Down'

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1658

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/279705

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching and drypoint on white antique laid paper

Technique

Etching and drypoint

Dimensions

plate: 8.1 x 15.9 cm (3 3/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Rembrandt
• inscription: in plate, lower left: Rembrandt / f. 1658
• collector's mark: verso, black stamp: WK [monogram within an oval border; Wilhelm Koller (Lugt 2632)]
• watermark: [illeg. device and a large C on either side of a chain line; Hinterding v. 2, p. 243, lists this under "unrecognizable fragments" ZZ. zz.]
• inscription: verso, graphite inscription: B. 205
• collector's mark: verso, purple stamp with added graphite numbering: [Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 4836)] 4924

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

W. Koller (Lugt 2632).

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

iv/vi (posthumous)

Standard Reference Number

New Hollstein 308, Bartsch 205, Hind 299, Rovinski 205

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund

Object Number

G4924

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Africans in Black and White: Images of Blacks in 16th- and 17th-Century Prints, W. E .B. Du Bois Institute, Rudenstine Gallery, Cambridge, 09/02/2010 - 12/03/2010

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